Teachers Need Raise, They Say - Harry E. Hadley and J. Howard Stalker, candidates for positions on the Board of Education, today announced they will support the board when it asks for a tax levy in November. The board said on June 3 that it would need the additional funds to adjust wages and salaries of school personnel. A citizens’ committee report released that week had disclosed that, while future income will be sufficient to operate the school system without a deficit it will not be enough to provide an adequate increase for the 300 school employees. The board said that determination of the amount of the requested levy would come only after detailed study. Hadley, mill manager of Gardner Board and Carton Company, said. “If we are to get outstanding teachers and administrative workers and if we are to retain the many fine school people we now have, we must be able to pay them fairly...”
Teachers Need Raise, They Say - Harry E. Hadley and J. Howard Stalker, candidates for positions on the Board of Education, today announced they will support the board when it asks for a tax levy in November. The board said on June 3 that it would need the additional funds to adjust wages and salaries of school personnel. A citizens’ committee report released that week had disclosed that, while future income will be sufficient to operate the school system without a deficit it will not be enough to provide an adequate increase for the 300 school employees. The board said that determination of the amount of the requested levy would come only after detailed study. Hadley, mill manager of Gardner Board and Carton Company, said. “If we are to get outstanding teachers and administrative workers and if we are to retain the many fine school people we now have, we must be able to pay them fairly...”
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